13 Facts About Ernst Biberstein

Ernst Emil Heinrich Biberstein was an SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer, member of the SD and commanding officer of Einsatzkommando 6.

Ernst Biberstein was born Ernst Szymanowski in Hilchenbach, Province of Westphalia.

Ernst Biberstein was a private in World War I from March 1917 to 1919.

On 1 June 1941, Ernst Biberstein became head of the Gestapo office in Opole.

Ernst Biberstein was a defendant at the Einsatzgruppen Trial during the Nuremberg Trials.

Ernst Biberstein's trial began in September 1947 and ended on 9 April 1948.

Ernst Biberstein was present at executions where victims were made to kneel at the edge of a pit and killed with a submachine gun.

Ernst Biberstein was ultimately found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging.

Ernst Biberstein's sentence was reviewed by the "Peck Panel", and later commuted to life imprisonment in 1951.

Ernst Biberstein was denied parole, but the board unanimously voted for his life sentence and that of the other three to be commuted to time served.

The commutations became official on 6 May 1958, and Ernst Biberstein was released three days later.

Ernst Biberstein temporarily returned to the clergy, and died in 1986 in Neumunster.

Ernst Biberstein was portrayed in the 1978 NBC Holocaust television miniseries by Edward Hardwicke.